Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Bernhard

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

Walter Savage Landor

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Joseph Addison

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Ken Curtis

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Randall Robinson

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Phyllis Diller

You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

Larry King

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Karl Pilkington

I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan.

Louise Penny

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Rick Riordan

Imitation is flattery

William Shenstone

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

Samuel Johnson

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

William Feather

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Joseph Addison

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Nick Lachey

It?s like, 'Surely this is going to be the last one? This will be the last one.' And they just keep putting them out. But I guess in some strange, twisted way it?s a form of flattery in that people are interested in what?s going on with us. But it is frustrating.